“We have a lot of phobias around algorithms. Sometimes this is justified, but in the main, it's like being afraid of cockroaches or spiders. Algorithms aren't spiders or cockroaches, they're an instrument and sometimes will outperform human judgement terrifically well – and sometimes won't. If lives are on the line and it turns out an algorithm reduces the noise of the human decision maker and the bias, then the moral case for using the algorithm starts to look really strong.”— Cass R. Sunstein
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We've built two great contagion machines. Firstly, international travel which has enabled vast numbers of people to fly over great distances. Secondly, the internet – and in particular, the way the internet has evolved... it became a machine for disseminating contagious ideas.
— Niall FergusonBritish historian and author specializing in financial and military history
Today's civilisation is more fragile as a result of its complexity. We've created an astonishingly networked world in which we communicate and travel in ways which were unimaginable for most of human history... but at the same time, we have made ourselves more vulnerable to certain kinds of disaster, and even invented new forms of disaster that didn't' exist before.
— Niall FergusonBritish historian and author specializing in financial and military history
Art, for him, is a crucial means for turning thinking into doing in the world.
— Olafur EliassonIcelandic-Danish artist known for immersive light and weather installations
Creation, whatever form it takes, must improve the lives of as many people as possible.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
No one has to be a genius, but everyone has to participate.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
Even when I reached the top, I never forgot where I came from. I wondered about the millions of my fellow countrymen who didn't have the chance I got and continued to languish in poverty.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
My hands have been known mostly for the leather gloves that I've used as an instrument to punish opposing fighters. Outside the ring, though, I want my legacy to be the man with bare hands that offered kindness and hope to those in need.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
When I first laced up a pair of gloves as a 16-year old kid, it was January 2, 1995, and fame and fortune were not my primary motivation. I was fighting for the next decent meal and to provide for my family, the best way I knew how.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
We don't change the world through opinions, we change it with examples. So I've been putting myself out there, reaching out and connecting.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
Only relatively recently in our own culture, five hundred years or so ago, did a distinction arise that cut society in two, forming separate classes of music performers and music listeners.
— Hans ZimmerAcclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception
Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking, and everyone participated.
— Hans ZimmerAcclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception
We're up against corporate, almost criminal behaviour. We are up against corporations who are manipulating young, vulnerable people.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
I've described celebrities as being 'double agents of the patriarchy,' and whilst things are getting better- and language is changing, we are still not always calling out those who fat shame or age shame women.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
The most important thing to realise is this; we control the market, the market does not control us.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
It's taken for me to get into my 30s to realise I am more than the media told me I was- I have more to say, so do my friends. We are intelligent, we are strong, we are multi-faceted, we are vulgar and we are funny. It is because we haven't been given the opportunity to exercise these facets of ourselves in the media that we've started to doubt our ability.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
Photography has become the universal language. It doesn't matter what country you're from, what language you speak, we all understand images. That's what makes it so powerful and so dangerous.
— RankinScottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work